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United States Patent | 5,729,388 |
Gershenfeld | March 17, 1998 |
An optical communication and/or measurement system includes a transmitter that modulates a pseudo-random noise signal with a message signal to produce a wideband signal for transmission. A receiver, which demodulates the wideband signal to recover the message signal, includes an "analog" feedback shift register ("AFSR") that reproduces the noise signal based on samples of the received signal. The AFSR is a generalization of a linear feedback shift register ("LFSR"). The AFSR is characterized by a function that agrees with the function that characterizes the LFSR, at the points at which that function is defined. The AFSR includes beam splitters that are spaced in accordance with the associated pseudorandom code. The AFSR's function has stable fixed points at integer values and unstable fixed points at half-integer values and, the stable fixed points act as attractors. The AFSR thus produces a sequence that relaxes to the nearest integer-valued sequence. As long as the samples of received signal that are fed to the AFSR fall within the basins of attraction that surround the stable values, the AFSR can accurately determine the expected next state of the shift register. While this can be done explicitly, the AFSR merges the symbol parsing, acquisition, tracking and update rules into a simple governing equation. The AFSR will thus entrain and produce an optical binary-valued pseudo-random noise signal.
Inventors: | Gershenfeld; Neil (Somerville, MA) |
Assignee: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) |
Appl. No.: | 713017 |
Filed: | September 12, 1996 |
Current U.S. Class: | 359/637; 359/639; 398/189 |
Intern'l Class: | H04B 010/04 |
Field of Search: | 359/629,637,187,184 |
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